Music fans mourn shop owner’s passing

MUSICIANS in Cork have been saddened at news of the death of music shop owner Michael Crowley.

Best known to the wider public as having sold Rory Gallagher his famous sunburst Fender Stratocaster guitar in 1963, he was well known and respected by music enthusiasts from Cork and further afield who visited Crowley’s Music Centre on MacCurtain Street for new instruments, repairs, sound equipment and many other services.

The family business was started in Merchant’s Quay in the 1930s by his father Tadhg and his uncle Denis, who started out making and repairing uileann pipes.